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M96bds_2_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M96bds_2_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 1946 GiB of memory and 4.61 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 6.3697 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
1946 GiB Memory
4.61 TB Storage
Spare SCore
91198
(All-cores)
2057
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M96bds_2_v3
Name
M96bds_2_v3
API Reference
Standard_M96bds_2_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
56
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T06:21:48.970614

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
6.3697 USD/h 34.4678 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
6.3697 USD/h 34.4678 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
6.3701 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
6.3701 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
6.3701 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
6.3701 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
6.3701 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 34.47 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 34.47 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
7.1979 USD/h 38.9499 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
7.453 USD/h 40.3299 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
7.453 USD/h 40.33 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
7.634 USD/h 41.3093 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
7.6433 USD/h 41.36 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
7.6433 USD/h 41.36 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
8.2728 USD/h 41.364 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
7.684 USD/h 41.58 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
7.6845 USD/h 41.5829 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
7.9626 USD/h 43.0875 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
8.0157 USD/h 43.3747 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
8.2806 USD/h 44.8082 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
8.2809 USD/h 44.81 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
8.5996 USD/h 46.5345 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
8.9178 USD/h 48.2563 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
9.1092 USD/h 49.2921 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
9.1092 USD/h 49.2921 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
9.2366 USD/h 49.9815 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
9.8736 USD/h 53.4285 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
9.8736 USD/h 53.4285 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
12.7401 USD/h 68.94 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8473C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
210 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
44.3
Scalability
92.29

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    4608 GB
    Storages
    • 4608 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized x86 platform featuring massive RAM capacity, high-speed local storage, and top-tier multi-threaded processing for enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M96bds_2_v3 is a memory-optimized server from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, featuring 96 dedicated vCPUs powered by an Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz. It is equipped with 1946.0 GB of RAM, providing 20.27 GB per core, and includes 4608 GB of local storage. The architecture supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX. In benchmark testing, the server exhibits top-tier memory bandwidth, multi-core CPU performance, and database operations. While single-core CPU performance and certain LLM text generation tasks fall into average ranges, its massive memory capacity and high multi-threaded throughput make it highly effective for large-memory databases, in-memory analytics, and intensive enterprise workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.22Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 16,578,966 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 8.74 50.00% 50.00% +196.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 82,491,909 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 7.15 20.00% 20.00% +48.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,401 2,411 0.996 10.00% 10.00% -0.04%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 465,177 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 4.33 10.00% 10.00% +15.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,161 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,195

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,442

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 97234
    Compression
    		 1600017
    Encryption
    		 96301
    Extended Instructions
    		 120418
    Floating Point Maths
    		 310857
    Integer Maths
    		 437229
    Physics
    		 13199
    Prime Numbers
    		 781
    Single Threaded
    		 3161
    String Sorting
    		 215373

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2401
    Database Operations
    		 35123
    Memory Latency
    		 71
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27711
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10286
    Memory Write
    		 9185

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    M64bds_v3 64512 GiB0
    M128-64bds_v3 641024 GiB0
    M64bds_1_v3 641397 GiB0

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